How bad is pangaea economy?

[Palma]

Law priest on ICQ wrote:

Btw, are GM's aware that red chars rule Pangaea. Now there's 3-5 active players in Law and 20 active robbers. I have 6 friends in Law who starts to make robbers because they can't hunt and only option is to rob. So Law dies soon and everyone is only interested on robbing. So something must be done before the playerbase lowers too much.

Hope you're not talking of us, cause we didn't leave Law cause of that.

And my answer to that is: "So what?"

You just prefer Law cause Law protects you for free, you can deal other protection for yourself or your guild with Imperial, Tekstones, Nature, Telborea, Nox, etc.

The strong guilds/religions rule and that's that. It's just you guys who don't want to spend any money/items.
Hence the economy being as it is. Items stay too long on the same place, people use cloths all the time, use their full bags of potions/regs with them. Smiths are mining freely unafraid to get robbed, heck if I need an armor I just tell my friend smith to go make me one for free cause he can go mine freely and get many ores cause of cloths.
And guilds such as Armageddon Glory cannot help Law because Tekstone's Heighten Barbarians blessed halberds with 60 piety + full cloths can instant anyone. And AGs can't even get blessed by Law anymore, let alone have money to get cloths for now.

There only way to make things balanced pvp and economy wise, is by having full loot. And more then that, stop speaking about morale. Back in the days it wasn't "Oh no I won't loot to be fair", it was "I'll loot everything even if I don't need them, better than that, I'ma trash this mofo's stuff".

Everyone is too used to the good life. Let fear and panic rise again, let people join Law because there's actually criminals to fight all the time. People don't go to Law not because they want to have robbers, people do robbers because there's no-one to pvp all the time as Law. As red, you can find pvp anytime you want. Law is a pvp religion, for as more as you want to say some may just want to RP, 90% join Law cause of OP rites and to PVP. So let them have criminals to fight against.

[Biggs]

If law want dry looting they can get it through talking with the opposers n votes on your forum sections. Im sure nox and tek wont decline it.

And ffs stay on subject,

My tinkers trade is slow as hell +5 set here n there. Cant sell or recycle +3+4 like smithys can so i waste / loose alot of profit making them.

Steeds well everyone expects steeds fixed for free nowadays and they expect to buy them cheap too.

Wands well mages/priest/druids/necros/bards dont use them, hell even fighers can use a magical reflect want just gotto .undress first. But still they dont sell i have like 200+ charges sitting in one of my chests.

[Glarundis]

we can't expect anything to be sold as well as any other item.
just like in real life, some stuff sells more than other stuff.
about wands, i'm not just using my bard to pvp much otherwise i'd get some wands. and i think atleast mages can benefit from them. but now they all prefer to use scrolls apparently
i think wands should be improved, even a maxed mage with clothes and a hellfire wand deals very low dmg. but that's just my opinion, maybe it's actually balanced to prevent a group of casters using wands from killing everyone with a few hellfire wands

[Darian Darkmind]

If wands were boosted that's exactly what would happen. I remember back in the first year of Pangaea when no one had high magic resistance I used to run around with Xaeron and his 65 intelligence wearing nothing but a wand of hellfire. I ran after robbers and threw flame-strikes on them, some of them died with one and then I looted their D'spine armours - which back then cost 100-200k - and was a happy newbie. Oh and Xaeron is a knight for those who didn't know.